Telephone headset



A ril 14, 1925. 1,533,524

E. T. TURNEY TELEPHONE HEADSET Filed April 26. 1922 WXWW Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT o-sriscier.

EUGENE T. TURKEY, OF HOLMES, NE'W YORK, AS'SIGNGR GEO-EUGENE T. TURNEY LAB- ORATORIES, INQ, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, GUI i-PO'RATION (3F NEW. JERSEY.

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Application filed April as, 1922.

Z '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE T. TURNEY, citizen of the United States, and a resident of Holmes, Dutchess County, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Headsets, of which the following is a specilication.

The present invention relates to head se s such as are used in radio telephony.

The objects of the invention are to provide a particularly sensitive telephone receiver of this character which will fit well to the head, holding the phones in close engageinent with the ears, but without uncoinortable or excessive pressure at any point, and which, furthern'iore, will be light in weight, attractive in appearance and quickly and easily adjustable to fit the wearer.

These and other objects are attained in the embodiment of the invention disclosed in the accompanying drawing which, however, to be considered as illustrative of the torin the invention may take, it being obvious that certain changes and modifications may be made in the structure without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention.

Figure 1 in the drawing referred to is a side elevation.

Figure 2 is a front view of in the position of normal use.

Figure 3 is a sectional plan oil Figure 1.

The head band structure consists in the present disclosure of a pair of relatively light spring wires 5 which are shown covered with suitable webbing 6, these wires being arched to lightly clasp the top of the head, and having convergent end portions secured to the end plates 7. In the illustration these plates are made of sheet metal and the" anchorage of the wire ends thereto is accomplished by bending lugs 8 at the side edges of the plates over the ends of the wires.

At their upper and lower ends the plates 7 are shown as having outwardly bent lugs the head set on line 33 9 perforated at 10 to provide alined bear-.

ings for posts attached to the individual phones.

The posts or connectors are of novel construction in that they consist in each in stance of a fiat spring strip doubled upon itself to form a spring post llyslidingly Serial at. am.

engaging in the bearings 10, the lower ends of the stripsbeing arched apart to form a :tork fitting about the case of the phone and carrying pivot lugs 12 engaging in sockets therefor provided in the phone case.

The doubled portions of the spring strips are separated suliiciently to provide the spring tension tor trictionally holding the posts in vertically adjusted relation in their sockets and the corners provided at the edges of these fiat strips operate to hold the posts in their angularly turned relations; consequently, while the phones can be very readily adjusted both vertically and singularly, they will automatically hold themselves in the positions in which they have been set;

What I claim is:

1. In a telephone head set, a head band carrying spaced lugs perforated to provide aligned bearings, a telephone receiver and a post connected therewith slidably and rotatably engaged in said bearings, said post comprising longitudinally separated st 'ips spaced under spring tension to each ieldingly grip the bearings at longitudi J nail-y separated points.

2. In a telephone head set, a head band carrying spaced lugs perforated to provide aligned bearings, a telephone receiver, and a post connected therewith slidably and rotatably engaged in said bearings, comprising longitudinally separated strips spaced under spring tension to each yieldingly grip the bearings at longitudinally separated points, said strips having angular corner edges presented to the bearings and the bearing lugs having angular edges adjacent the corner edges of the strips. v

3. In combination, a telephone receiver, a support theret'or having a bearing and a supporting post for the receiver, slidably and 'rotatably engaged in said bearing and comprising a single strip of flat spring material doubled upon itself to provide spaced substantially parallel longitudinally extending spring tensioned 1ne1nbers frictionally held in the hearing by their tendency to straighten the strip and spaced at their lower ends to form a fork embracing the receiver, saidfork ends having pivot studs associated therewith for pivotally supporting the receiver.

i. In a telephone head set, a head band having a sheet metal bracket at one end of the same provided with outwardly bent sub.-

stantially parallel lugs separated to provide spaced bearings, a telephone receiver and a supporting post for said receiver com-- prising a single strip of spring metal doubled upon itself to forin a stem made up of spaced substantially parallel spring tensioned members friotionally engaged with the outstanding bearing lugs, the lower ends of said folded strip being spread apart at 10 the base of the parallel sided stem to form fork arms, said arms havingpivot studs engaged With thereoeiver case.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of March, 1922.

EUGENE T. TURNEY. April 10 1922.

EUGENE T. TURNEY.

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